PITTSBURGH -- Any cards Tennessee coaches held up on the sideline for Joshua Dobbs were decoys.

The messages he got from hand signals and the plays they relayed, though, have translated to the Pittsburgh Steelers' offense in a very real way.

Coming out of college Dobbs was widely discussed as a spread quarterback who would need to reshape his mind around the foundations of a pro-style offense. That hasn't been the case so far.

"Well coming to this setting they actually showed me that we ran a lot of traditional offense in college," Dobbs said. "We ran the same play, same scheme, same progressions, the same runs that I've run in college, whether it's red zone or in the field so it's a little different, of course, in a huddle rather than getting signals from the sideline.

"But outside of that it's still the same plays, still the same scheme, still the same type of verbiage I was running at the college level to help me translate over to the NFL level."

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